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Notes

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Note

Date

Short Description

Note Text

3567

1886

General notes.

In January 1886, James Cooper took up a coal lease on the northern bank of the Kawarau River, about 2 miles (3.2km) upstream of Cromwell. The area had an upper layer of a coal seam exposed in the river bank. The seam was 6 foot thick and contained fair quality lignite.
James Cooper opened up a mine (location #503) on this seam. It is not known how long this mine was worked.

3568

1930

General notes.

In 1930 W J S Hodson opened up a mine on the site of James Coopers mine (#503). No details of the working of this mine have been located by the author at this time.
It appears that the mine was abandoned around 1940.

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